Editorial policy and corrections

Kirill Proskurin builds the StrikeCast app and writes every page here. StrikeCast is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, NOAA, the National Weather Service, EUMETSAT or any other agency whose data it uses. More on the about page.

• Science and safety claims cite the agency that owns the facts — NOAA, the National Weather Service, EUMETSAT — or peer-reviewed work.
• Numbers about lightning come from the satellite data described on data sources, processed as described in the methodology.
• Climate facts on city pages appear only for cities whose figures we could verify; the others get state-level context, labelled as such.
• Facts about other apps come only from their own public App Store listings, with the date we read them.

Some guides compare lightning apps, including StrikeCast. Those pages say at the top that the author makes StrikeCast, mark every mention of it as our app, and give every app the same checks. Nobody pays to be included, ranked or described.

Every guide shows when it was published and when it was last updated. A guide is updated when a fact in it changes — a price, a feature, a source — and the new date says so. Live figures on city pages and the map show their own age.

Found a mistake? Email support@strikecast.app with the page and what is wrong. We check it against the source, fix the page, and update its date. When a correction changes a number someone may have relied on, the page says what changed — the monthly lightning reports carry a corrections note for exactly this.

StrikeCast is for awareness. It reports lightning that has already happened and does not replace official warnings. Follow the National Weather Service or your national weather service, and go indoors when you hear thunder.